The Asian World Film Festival (AWFF) has joined forces with digital entertainment and news leader TheWrap as its official media partner in its debut year. AWFF brings the best of a broad selection of Asian World cinema to Los Angeles in order to draw greater recognition to the region’s wealth of filmmakers from 48 countries …

“Furious 7,” the latest in a long line of Universal blockbusters starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, is getting a warm welcome from critics ahead of its release this weekend. Then, just when you think that it’s actually a sober film set in the real world, someone will drive a car out of a plane and land safely on a mountain …

The teenage revolution was in full force on the fall 1964 night that Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp stumbled into the Railway Tavern, a London pub where a band called the High Numbers was playing and mods were gyrating. It was London's Swinging '60s, with its subculture explosion and stylish youths.

“Furious 7” star Vin Diesel appeared on Monday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and debuted a new clip from the upcoming action film. Diesel apparently asked Zuckerberg to help him clean up the spam on his official Facebook page. “I think we’re making another one, yeah,” Diesel said when Kimmel asked if they were planning a se …

The 2014 pace-setter so far is Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer, whose compensation ballooned to a massive $63.6 million — up 400 percent from 2013’s $12.6 million — on the heels of the success of the fiscal year’s “Hunger Games” installment and fuelled by Feltheimer’s stock options. On the flip side, ailing media mogul Sumner …

They’re not as famous as the Beatles, but the stars of the hit TV series “Downton Abbey” have launched their own British invasion. Two “Downton Abbey” alums have already landed high-profile roles in Disney films — Lily James in the recent hit “Cinderella” and Dan Stevens in the upcoming “Beauty and the Beast.” Several others …

As we learned in the closing credits of “Fast and Furious 6,” Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) is out to get the gang of street-racers who put his brother Owen (Luke Evans) into intensive care. Having already taken out Han (Sung Kang), Shaw is gunning for Dom, Brian, the still-amnesiac Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), droll techie …

In anticipation of the upcoming theatrical release of Fast & Furious 7 this April, three movies from the beloved blockbuster franchise are set to roar onto Universal Channel. Gear up for the latest sequel with the second installment: '2 Fast 2 Furious', the fourth: 'Fast & Furious' and fifth: 'Fast …

Sneider thinks Oscar winner Steven Spielberg is the perfect choice to direct Ernie Cline‘s ode to ’80s pop culture because he understands gaming and is capable of bringing the author’s ambitious story to life. To do that, he’ll be working with state-of-the-art technology created by Magic Leap, which you can get a taste …

Bob and Harvey Weinstein have acquired Matthew McConaughey‘s mining drama “Gold” and will release the film under their TWC-Dimension banner, the duo announced Monday. Stephen Gaghan will direct the film, which is inspired by the true story about the 1993 Bre-X Mineral Corporation mining scandal, where large amounts of …

Walt Disney Pictures is developing a live-action movie based on the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan that serves as further proof of the studio’s commitment to diverse storytelling, TheWrap has learned. Disney has purchased a screenplay from the writing team of Elizabeth Martin and Lauren Hynek that follows the Chinese female …

Sony Pictures Entertainment has named John Restall as executive VP of domestic marketing research, it was announced Monday by Dwight Caines, the studio’s president of theatrical marketing. In his new role, Restall will report to Caines as he oversees all domestic theatrical market research efforts for the studio’s marketing …